My E30. What would you price it at?

[e-dirtym52]

this is one of the first times i've put up pictures of it. Don't hate too much.

bought the car 2 1/5 years ago for 800 bucks. everything on the car was blown. suspension, motor, wheel bearings, tires, interior sucked, and it leaked anything and everything. got hooked up with an m52 from a friend for a few hundred and did the whole swap myself my garage. the only thing a shop did was my exhaust. so for a whole summer i kicked my dad out of the garage and worked on it for a few months.

once the swap was done i was able to drive it around but it wasn't too good. the tune was fucked up and it could only be driven lightly. which wasn't too bad because i never intended it to be a full blown race car anyways. so come spring time the one time i left it out in front of my house some fuckers came and stole it. i got it back a week later but it was absolutely trashed. cigarettes put out in the center console, knives taken to the seats, off roaded the car, put a huge dent in the driver rear corner, and left the windows down so when i rained for 3 days at the impound lot it got completely soaked.

so starting back from square one and making sure the engine wasn't blown i replaced the transmission with another g260, ripped out the interior completely and laid new carpet, got some sport seats, new center console, found some bmw floor mats out of an x5 that i may or may not have jacked from my old job, and built some suspension for it. not exactly ground controls but pretty close replicas that ironfreak helped me make (or should i say he made while i watched). ground control springs, koni struts, ebay coil adjusters in the front and ireland engineering adjusters in the back, and german manufactured camber plates that i can't for the life of me remember the name. and had to get the exhaust re done after they smashed it off roading it and put in a 2.5 catless exhaust on.

all said and done it still didn't drive quite right. so the OG squidmaster sssquid came through and that son of a bitch did wonders. amazing guy that made the impossible possible. drives tons better than it used to. so that's the story of my E30.

it's got a nasty spot of cancer right on the passenger door but that's the only spot of rust. except for where the paint came off where they smashed my rear end when they stole it.

1991 325I
lazurblau metallic paint
clean title
225k on body
less than 1000 on the swap

Drivetrain:
obd1 m52 swap
g260 manual transmission
open diff unfortunately

Suspension:
ground control springs
IE rear spring adjusters
ebay front adjusters
unknown german manufactured camber plates









you can see in the one below where they busted the rear corner on it. now the trunk leaks water and the tail light got smashed out too.










i have rondell 15 inch rims on it. i don't know how rare or good these rims are but i like them. they came with the car.




thanks for reading and checking out the pics. i don't have any clue what i would even price this thing out at but i hope you enjoyed the back story behind it.

[george graves]

$3500-$4200.

EDIT - maybe less. That big old dent is going to need to repray most if not the whole car.

[e-dirtym52]

Yea I've never gotten that thing appraised. I'm affraid to see how much it costs

[Farbin Kaiber]

I'm with gg. I was gonna say $3500 as well.

[ST1G]

Agreed. I'm going to go with 4k in the right market.

[e-dirtym52]

Do you think it can even be pulled out or should I just get some bondo and hope for the best?

[Farbin Kaiber]

You put bondo on the car and expect an instant $500 deduction, if you are gonna sell, sell as is, don't try to make it worth more by doing quick chit someone else will just have to undo to do the right way.

[e-dirtym52]

I'm not sure if I'm going to sell. I've played with the idea but haven't made any decisions yet. But thanks for the feedback and checking it out.

[dirtbag30]

clean engine bay. don't sell it!
clean it up fix the trunk and drive her like hell.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I'm not sure if I'm going to sell. I've played with the idea but haven't made any decisions yet. But thanks for the feedback and checking it out.

I'm at a loss for words. I'm closing my computer and going to watch TV now, I wasted too much time with someone not even selling something, simply looking for attention as to what his car is worth in hopes people will like him more.

[e-dirtym52]

I don't need any appreciation from anyone all I was looking for some feedback on what it's worth incase I decide to sell it before winter hits and wanted to share my story of the car. But Whatver I suppose. Have fun watching tv

[peterpeter]

Farbin, how is typing out two comments wasting too much time?

[Farbin Kaiber]

The response takes seconds, but sitting here, going over low quality photos to get a grasp of the car to actually attempt to assess a value takes time.

[e-dirtym52]

What were you watching on tv? Must not have been very good.

[Ether-D]

Were you coerced Farbin? They can be persuasive…